Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Erlangen, Germany

Erlangen station is located on the Nuremberg–Bamberg railway in the German state of Bavaria. It is the oldest railway station of the city of Erlangen and it is the only station in the city served by long-distance trains. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station and has four platform tracks.

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The Evangelical Reformed Church is referred to as Huguenot Church in Erlangen. It was built from 1686 to 1693 according to the plans of Johann Moritz Richter. The construction took place in the course of the design of the Erlangen Neustadt, a baroque plan city. The tower dates from 1732 to 1736. The Erlangen Church is the oldest still used church of the Huguenots outside of France. In addition, the Evangelical Reformed Church is probably the most important church building in Erlangen, the oldest building of the Erlangen Neustadt and after the Martinsbühler church the second oldest church in Erlangen. The Neustädter Church was only founded in 1703 and the original Altstadt Marienkirche was destroyed in the great fire in 1706 and only rebuilt as a trinity church in 1721. It was called a distinction from the German-reformed church to the unification of the two parishes in 1922. In 1936, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the arrival of French refugees, the parish was brought from the outside, since it was now possible to name them in the analogous to renaming the square in Hugenottenplatz. This was rejected by the presbytery, since the parish not only originally had French (Huguenot) parishioners, but also from the Palatinate, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Waldenser.

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The Besoldsche Haus is a baroque aristocratic palace in Erlangen, Germany. The building with the address Hauptstraße 26 was built between 1733 and 1734 and is a listed building.

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The Stutterheim Palace is the most important Baroque aristocratic palace in Erlangen. It is located on the south side of the market square and was built between 1728 and 1730. Today it houses the Erlangen City Library and the Kunstpalais Erlangen.

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The Kunstpalais Erlangen is the successor institution of the Städtische Galerie Erlangen. Since 1974, this has been located in the Palais Stutterheim, which was built between 1728 and 1730 on behalf of and for Christian Hieronymus von Stutterheim and is located in the centre of the Huguenot city. After a two-year renovation phase, the Kunstpalais was opened in 2010 with an exhibition space doubled to more than 500 m² on the ground floor and basement of the Palais Stutterheim under the founding director Claudia Emmert.

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The Schloßplatz in Erlangen, together with the neighbouring market square, forms today's centre of the city. Together, they are part of the Erlangen pedestrian zone and the venue for numerous markets and festivals.

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The Orangery of Erlangen is architecturally assigned to Erlangen Castle and is located in the palace garden belonging to the residence.

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The Schloss Erlangen is a residence in Erlangen, built between 1700 and 1704 by George William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. Work was initially led by Antonio della Porta and after his death in 1702 by Gottfried von Gedeler. It was the first baroque building built from scratch in Franconia.

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University of Erlangen–Nuremberg is a public research university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. The name Friedrich–Alexander comes from the university's first founder Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and its benefactor Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

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Neustädter Kirche is one of three large downtown churches of the Baroque old town of Erlangen. Germany. The church is Lutheran. It dominates the town, together with the Reformed Hugenottenkirche and the Lutheran Altstädter Kirche.

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The Egloffstein Palace is the largest Baroque aristocratic palace in Erlangen. The building with the addresses Friedrichstraße 17 and Südliche Stadtmauerstraße 28 was built in 1718 and today houses the adult education center of the city of Erlangen and the German-French Institute Erlangen.

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The Lyncker Palace is a Baroque palace in Erlangen, Germany. The building at Friedrichstraße 35 was built in 1748 and today houses the Erlangen Singing and Music School. It is a listed building.

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Jakob Herz was a German physician and the first Jewish professor in Bavaria.

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The castle garden in Erlangen is considered one of the first baroque gardens in Franconia. In the garden, which has been open to the general public since 1849, the largest garden festival in Europe takes place every year with the Schlossgartenfest of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

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The Botanical Garden Erlangen is a botanical garden, which is 2 hectares in size, maintained by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and located on the north side of the castle garden in the city center at Loschgestraße 3, Erlangen, Franconia, Germany. It is open daily except Monday.

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Markgrafentheater Erlangen is a theater in Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany. It was opened in 1719, and celebrated its 300-year anniversary in 2019.

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Theater Erlangen is a spoken theatre in Erlangen, Germany. The venues are the Markgrafentheater, the studio stage in the Theater in der Garage and the mobile stage in the Otokar theater bus.

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This list is a partial list of the List of monuments in Erlangen. The basis of the list is the Bavarian List of Monuments, which was first compiled on the basis of the Bavarian Monument Protection Act of 1 October 1973 and has since been maintained and updated by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments. The following information does not replace the legally binding information of the monument protection authority.

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The Old Town Church is the baroque church building of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in the old town of Erlangen. Along with the Evangelical Lutheran Neustadt Church and the Evangelical Reformed Huguenot Church, it is one of the three large churches in Erlangen's city centre, whose towers still characterise the cityscape today.

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The Sacred Heart Church is the oldest post-Reformation Catholic church in Erlangen. It was built from a house of prayer from 1790 in two construction phases in 1849/50 and 1895, and in 1963/66 and 2008 far-reaching changes were made to the interior and furnishings during renovation work. Since 2006, the parish, together with St. Bonifaz and St. Sebald, has belonged to the parish association Erlanger Mitte in the Erlangen deanery of the Archdiocese of Bamberg.

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This is a list of the Stolpersteine in Erlangen that were laid by the artist Gunter Demnig. They are intended to commemorate those victims of National Socialism who lived and worked in Erlangen.

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The Aroma Garden Erlangen is a public garden designed with aromatic plants at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. It is located in the middle of the city of Erlangen in the landscape conservation area at the Palmsanlage below the Ludwigsbrücke and the Schwabach. When the garden was opened in 1981 after two years of construction, it was the first garden of its kind in the world. Around 120 domestic and foreign aromatic plants grow on the 8,900 m² site, which form flavourings and are used as medicines, spices and cosmetic preparations.

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